Friday Apr 19, 2013

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Tennesee Williams' award-winning play about Big Daddy Pollitt and the relationships among members of his family, primarily between his son and daughter-in-law, Brick and Maggie.

Itâs Big Daddyâs 65th birthday celebration. But the mood is somber: greed, sins of the past, and desperate, clawing hopes for the future clash as the knowledge that big daddy is dying slowly makes the rounds. Maggie, Big Daddyâs daughter-in-law, wants to give him the news that sheâs finally become pregnant by his favorite son, Brick. But Brick wonât cooperate in maggieâs plans, preferring to stay in a mild alcoholic haze. Swarming around Maggie and Brick are their intrusive, conniving relatives, all eager to see maggie put in her place and brick tumbled from his position of most-beloved son. By eveningâs end, Maggieâs ingenuity, fortitude and passion will set things right, and Brickâs love for his father, never before expressed, will retrieve him from his path of destruction and return him to Maggieâs loving arms.

This isn’t the screenplay. Elizabeth Taylor isn’t here, and Paul Newman isn’t involved. Tennessee Williams’ play is represented here as he wrote it—and not as Hollywood portrayed it. The Albuquerque Little Theatre wants you to know that the stage version is the best version and from my vantage point, their boast is dignified and true.